Archive for December, 2009

WORDS TO REFLECT UPON – EDGAR GUEST*

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

QUOTE:

A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I’ve played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.

~Edgar Guest

WORDS TO REFLECT UPON – MARTIN LUTHER*

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

QUOTE:

“Glory to GOD in highest Heaven,
Who unto man HIS Son hath given;
While angels sing with tender mirth,
A glad new year to all the earth.”

~Martin Luther

WORDS TO REFLECT UPON – EDWARD PAYSON POWELL*

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

QUOTE:

“The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!”

~Edward Payson Powell

WORDS TO REFLECT UPON – OPRAH WINFREY*

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

QUOTE:

“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”

~Oprah Winfrey

WORDS TO REFLECT UPON – LORD ALFRED TENNYSON*

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

QUOTE:

“Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.”

~Lord Alfred Tennyson (1850)

WORDS TO REFLECT UPON – CHARLES LAMB*

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

QUOTE:

“New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.”

~Charles Lamb

WORDS TO REFLECT UPON – BENJAMIN FRANKLIN*

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

QUOTE:

“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ”

~Benjamin Franklin

WORDS TO REFLECT UPON – BILL VAUGHAN*

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

QUOTE:

“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ”

~Bill Vaughan

WORDS TO REFLECT UPON – HELEN STEINER RICE*

Friday, December 25th, 2009

QUOTE:

Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind;
Teach us to be patient and always to be kind.

~Helen Steiner Rice

WORDS TO REFLECT UPON – SHAKESPEARE*

Friday, December 25th, 2009

QUOTE:

Health, Peace, and sweet content be yours.

~Shakespeare